This unique book makes object relations and self psychology accessible to readers not familiar with recent psychoanalytical literature. The theories presented in the book illuminate areas of childhood experiences such as ''relational'' problems and narcissistic and borderline personality disorders. Readers will find clinical insights about object relations and self psychology through the presentation of issues, ideas, and controversies of these models of the person.
In a single volume, Dr. Goldstein has met the complex challenges of education and clinical practice.
... 40 although it is largely chaotic and mostly learned , as is postulated in Schachter and Singer's landmark experiment.41 Even from the beginning , however , emotions appear to be organized largely around pain ( feeling bad ) and ...
A comprehensive account of the work of the major contributors to object relations theories, this book covers the work of the major American and British contributors to object relations theory, focusing on the ways in which these theories ...
This volume thus presents an integrative theory of object relations that links theory with practice.
Object Relations and Self Psychology are two leading schools of psychological thought discussed in social work classrooms and applied by practitioners to a variety of social work populations. Yet both...
This collection of "comparisons and contrasts" explores Heinz Kohut's self psychology in relation to a wide-ranging group of modern thinkers, both inside and outside of analysis.
This comprehensive, introductory text makes the concepts of self psychology accessible for students and clinicians.
This established text presents a framework for integrating group psychology with psychoanalytic theories of object relations, the ego and the self, through the perspective of general systems theory.
Based on two workshops held February 1990 in New York and March 1990 in San Francisco.
A special section of papers on the evolution, current status, and future development of self psychology highlights The Evolution of Self Psychology, volume 7 of the Progress in Self Psychology series.